Park Cottage

Park Cottage is a detached house located on South Street in Castle Cary, with origins in the early and late 19th century, but it incorporates much 18th-century fabric. The building is constructed from cut and squared Cary stone and features a hipped Welsh slate roof along with ashlar chimney stacks. The main house has a double roof plan and faces east towards the park. It is two storeys high with three bays.

On the upper level, there are two and three-light small-pane casement windows. The ground floor has a central glazed door framed by an architrave, which may date from the 18th century. The outer bays feature margined French windows set in Regency-style fluted surrounds. The entire ground floor is obscured by a late 19th-century timber and glass conservatory that replaced an earlier verandah, although the cast iron uprights from the original remain.

To the south of the main house is an earlier building made of the same materials, set lower, which now serves as garages and a store and has been significantly altered. In the corner formed by this projection, there is a chamfered infill from around 1810 that includes a leaded casement and a first-floor window with 'Y'-tracery. The entrance has been moved to the west elevation and has undergone considerable alteration, primarily in the late 19th century.

Inside, the house features six-panel doors within 18th-century frames, a single chamfered crossbeam with stop and run-out ends, and a fine early 18th-century timber fireplace surround that is bomb-scarred and is said to have been removed from Lincoln's Inn. The stairs and most other interior features date from the 19th century.